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 · My childhood by Gorky, Maksim, Publication date Publisher New York: The Century co. Collection cdl; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor University of California Libraries Language English. Addeddate Bookplateleaf Call number SRLF:LAGE Camera 5DUser Interaction Count: K.  · Summary of M. Gorky’s novel “Childhood”. Narration on behalf of the main hero. I. Died father. Mother half naked beside him on the floor. Grandmother arrived – “round, big-headed, with huge eyes and a funny loose nose, she’s all black, soft and surprisingly interesting she spoke kindly, cheerfully, and smoothly.”.5/5(1). My Childhood, the first book of an autobiographical trilogy by Maxim Gorky, published in Russian in –14 as Detstvo. It was also translated into English as Childhood. Like the volumes of autobiography that were to follow, My Childhood examines the author’s experiences by means of individual portraits and descriptions of events.

My Childhood (Paperback) Published November 1st by Penguin Books. penguin twentieth-century classics, Paperback, pages. Author (s): Maxim Gorky, Ronald Wilks (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky: Directed by Mark Donskoy. With Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva. A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own country. My Childhood, the first volume of Gorky's autobiographical trilogy, was in part an act of exorcism.

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to live with his grandfather, a polecat-faced tyrant who would regularly beat him unconscious, and with his grandmother, a tender mountain of a woman and a wonderful storyteller, who. Detstvo Gorkogo (The Childhood of Maxim Gorky) - Directed by Mark Donskoy G. Shenotinnik A Review By Ollie The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, tells the story of Aleksei Peshkov a 12 year old boy, living in 19th Century Russia, who would later be known as Maxim Gorky, possibly Russia's most famous and celebrated novelist and dramatist. Made in , the film is based on Gorky's autobiography `My Childhood', and is rich and powerful film which will capture your attention from the beginning. My Childhood, the first book of an autobiographical trilogy by Maxim Gorky, published in Russian in –14 as Detstvo. It was also translated into English as Childhood. Like the volumes of autobiography that were to follow, My Childhood examines the author’s experiences by means of individual portraits and descriptions of events.